Quotes About Assessment

Start with an estimate of average GPA. Determine the GPA that matches your impression of the evidence. Estimate the correlation between your evidence and GPA.

Errors are bound to occur when a judgment of similarity is substituted for a judgment of probability

People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media. Frequently

Our answer was that when called upon to judge probability, people actually judge something else and believe they have judged probability.

Variability in judgments is also expected and welcome in a competitive situation in which the best judgments will be rewarded.

anyone who ignores base rates and the quality of evidence in probability assessments will certainly make mistakes.

Klein and I eventually agreed on an important principle: the confidence that people have in their intuitions is not a reliable guide to their validity.

Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them.

Wann immer einen die Dinge erschreckten, sei es eine gute Idee, sie zu messen.

The damaged frontal regions normally play an important role in assessing or monitoring signals provided by other neural systems.

In the West, military intelligence (MI) analysts have long followed a simple premise: Assess enemy capabilities, not intentions.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

Percival guessed that his prey preferred to listen, letting her friends carry on with whatever amusing nonsense filled their lives, while she privately assessed their habits, cataloging their strengths and faults with clinical ruthlessness.

In fact, what is amazing about this find is that scholars of every stripe—conservative Christians, liberal Christians, believers in Judaism, and secular Jewish scholars—agreed en masse that the special had missed the mark and hadn't come close to making its case.

What our assessment of the Jesus tomb hypothesis has shown is the danger of publicity-driven efforts that aren't carefully checked.

At the same time, we noted that a number of scholars have tried to make more out of Thomas than this document can bear.

Second is the rise of higher criticism

We now enter the Twilight Zone of psychology. Hundreds of theories of personality exist, but no one has yet successfully identified, or even defined, what personality is (Hall and Lindzey, 1957). Thus, there exists a myriad of psychological tests that measure something, but no one seems to quite know what it is.

Many people] plunge into all sorts of detail about what they want to accomplish, what investment they should buy, and where they want to be, without fist making sure they know where they stand now.

HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist's work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was the artist trying to achieve? Did he/she succeed? The third's a zinger: Was it worth doing?

The cultivation of a single staple grain was, in itself, an important step in legibility and hence, appropriation. Monoculture fosters uniformity at many different levels. . .A society shaped powerfully by monoculture was easier to monitor, assess, and tax than one shaped by agricultural diversity.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

temperature increase that, in EPA's assessment, was guaranteed to produce substantial climatic consequences, including disastrous flooding.

Testing is questioning a product in order to evaluate it.